Toffee Cake Recipe Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

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Toffee Cake Recipe
with Sheila Jones
Skill level: Easy
HD Lessons: 1
Decorating time: 1 Hour 20 Minutes
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1. Main Lesson

Method:

1. Ensure that all the ingredients are at room temperature.
2. Line the sides and base of the cake tin.
3. Preheat oven the 160C (fan).

Date mixture

1. Soak the dates in the cold tea for 24 hours (optional but the flavour is better).
2. Place dates and tea in a pan and bring to the boil.
3. Cook on a high heat for approx. 10 minutes till the mixture goes soft and ‘gloopy’.
4. Remove from the heat and thoroughly mix in bicarbonate of soda.
5. Set aside and leave to go completely cold.

Cake

1. Cream the butter and sugar till soft, light and fluffy.
2. Break the eggs into a measuring jug and lightly beat together.
3. Gently pour eggs into the mixture and beat well.
4. Add the vanilla extract and beat well.
5. Fold in the cold dates mixture till just combined and no more.
6. Fold in the sifted flour till just combined and no more.
7. Pour the mixture into the cake tin, place in oven and bake for 40 – 50 minutes depending on your oven. Do not open
the oven door before then.
8. To test that the cake is baked, insert a skewer or cocktail stick into the centre of the cake. If it comes out clean, the
cake is baked.
9. Remove the cake from the oven and leave in the tin to cool for 30 minutes.
10. Turn the cake out onto a wire cooling tray and leave to go cold.
11. Wrap in cling film and place in the fridge for 24 hours till ready to use.

Note.

This cake can be served hot with a warm toffee sauce of your choice. If you prefer to eat it cold, spread some buttercream
over the top and drizzle on your own cold caramel or toffee sauce. Yummy!

Baking superstar Mrs Jones of www.mrsjonescakes.co.uk is here to teach us how to make her super tasty toffee cake recipe.

The cake has been in high demand for many members of the site and we’re certain it’s worth the wait!

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This recipe is for a 8″ Round cake baked to a depth of 3″ or just under. Baked in an Invicta cake tin 4″ deep.

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  • 300ml of cold Earl Grey tea (brewed in a teapot)
  • 225g Dates (roughly chopped)
  • 1 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of soda
  • 115g Unsalted butter
  • 170g Soft brown sugar (light or dark depending on personal taste)
  • 2 Medium eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 170g Self-raising flour
  • 1 x deep 8” round cake tin (or 1 x deep 7” square cake tin)
  • Baking parchment or grease-proof paper
  • Scissors
  • Oven
  • Oven thermometer
  • Digital scales
  • Kettle
  • Tea pot
  • Chopping board
  • Sharp knife
  • Pan for using on stove or hob
  • Measuring jug
  • Heat resistant glass bowl
  • Wooden spoon or heatproof spatula
  • Food mixer (upright or hand held)
  • Fork
  • Spatula
  • Crank handle spatula
  • Thin skewer or cocktail stick
  • Wire cooling tray
Sheila Jones

Sheila Jones

Taught by her Mum to bake, many of you will recognise Mrs Jones as our expert baker. She is also an accomplished cake decorator. As a former nurse and midwife, Sheila has turned her passion for creating delicious, elegant, bespoke cakes into a very successful business. Over the years, Sheila's baking skills have been consolidated by achieving a professional diploma of PME Masterclass Certificates in Sugarcraft, Sugar Flowers Royal Icing and Piping, and she has worked with the very best of cake decorators in the country. She is Chair of the Glasgow Branch for the British Sugarcraft Guild, a member of the Scottish Association of Master Bakers and a founding member of the Glasgow Baking Club. You will all recognise her as the baking expert on our online tutorials. It was one of her students who said that 'Mrs Jones' kitchen is where we bake, learn, laugh and indulge'.
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